"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
—Walesa's Wife from "Practicalities" (1987) by Marguerite Duras
—Walesa's Wife from "Practicalities" (1987) by Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of postwar France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras’s formative experiences—including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband’s return from Nazi internment—revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in prewar Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France’s colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken, and surprisingly fresh and relevant today. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-lover-wartime-not…/
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Marguerite Duras, 1914-1996 La Passion suspendue
瑪格麗特．莒哈絲（Marguerite Duras, 1914-1996），
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